Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 22: A joint delegation of various Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir Refugee organizations and Baridar Sangharsh Committee (BSS) today met with AAP’s Rajya Sabha Member Parliament Sanjay Singh in New Delhi and projected their demands and issues for highlighting during the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament.
The members briefed the MP that all the Central as well as State Governments have inflicted great injustice to them by treating them as displaced people and not refugees with a false pretext.
About 41000 families migrated from PoJK after the tribal raid of 1947 and out of these 22,000 families were allotted agricultural land as rural settlers while 3600 families were given housing plots of 5 to 7 marlas or two Kucha room quarters in the city of Jammu, Udhampur and Nowshera, while nearly 5300 families were given shelter in refugee camps outside J&K.
These families are first class state subjects of the State/UT having full rights to vote for Panchayat, Assembly, Parliament and to acquire property and Government jobs in the Union Territory as they were already permanent residents of the State (now Domicile Certificate) before being hounded out from the part of the State which is now under the illegal occupation of Pakistan and is called PoJK.
MP Singh was also told in detail about the suffering and injustice they have met at the hands of various J&K and Central Governments which derailed their settlement and deprived them of their constitutional rights.
The DPs are also demanding de-freezing of their Assembly seats since 1967 out of 24 seats designated for the area under the illegal occupation of Pakistan, while the Baridar Sangharsh Committee said that from the last 35 years, Government and Shrine Board were befooling the people, who are Sewadars of Mata Vaishno Devi.
They said that over 30,000 souls of Baridars were fully dependent upon the offerings of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi shrine to meet their day to day needs but since the constitution of board all these people were now finding it difficult to meet their both ends.
The Member Parliament assured them to take up their issues on priority in Parliament.
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